Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 07:33:12 +0100 From: Kjell <kmidtset@c2i.net> To: darryl@osborne-ind.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copy a running system Message-ID: <20011211073248.4728A8269@mail.broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10112102255070.93443-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10112102255070.93443-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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On Tuesday 11 December 2001 8:05 am, you wrote: > On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Darryl Hoar wrote: > > Greetings, > > I tediously setup a 4.4-stable box as > > a firewall/router, etc. I have it just > > the way I want it. I have two other boxes > > a little different hardware) and was wondering > > if I could copy the setup from my running firewall > > to the other two boxes, then just tweak the differences? > > This would save a BOATLOAD of time. > After I had loaded a basic system from the CDs I used to take notes on what I had done. Now I have put all my notes in a shell shript. To load a new system I first install the basic system, then I run the shell shript. Thus the post install tweaking time is reduced to less than a second. Yes, I normally will do a few things for the particular system being set up, but nothing like doing it all from scratch. Regards from Kjell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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